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Book The Turner Erotica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert J. Begiebing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780983300243
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book The Turner Erotica written by Robert J. Begiebing and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. M. W. Turner, Britain's greatest and most revolutionary artist, has died. While reviewing the contents of Turner's vast artistic legacy for Britain's National Gallery, John Ruskin, Turner's greatest supporter, discovers a considerable body of previously unknown erotic sketches. Both shocked and outraged, Ruskin abruptly burns the materials he finds offensive. However, through betrayal and theft, some of the erotica has escaped the flames... William James Stillman, a young American artist and diplomat, pursues a dangerous quest across Britain, Europe, and the Eastern United States to save the remaining sketches. He is convinced that the surviving erotic studies are not only invaluable to British art history, but contain a secret clue to the master's celebrated body of public work. Unlocking this secret becomes an obsession that threatens to consume Stillman and blind him to his obligations to his friends, his family, and even to himself. Based on actual people and events, this thrilling work features not only Turner himself, but such luminary characters as Allegra Fullerton, the Rossetti brothers, other artists from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and Britain's greatest swordsman and adventurer, Sir Richard Burton.

Book Turner s Secret Sketches

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  • Author : Ian Warrell
  • Publisher : Tate
  • Release : 2013-02-12
  • ISBN : 9781849760850
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Turner s Secret Sketches written by Ian Warrell and published by Tate. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up until a few years ago, biographies of both JMW Turner and John Ruskin had claimed that, in 1858, Ruskin burned bundles of erotic paintings and drawings by Turner in a fit of embarsassed Victorian censorship, to protect Turner's posthumous reputation. This title examines this little known aspect of the artist's oeuvre.

Book Turner

Download or read book Turner written by Franny Moyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist. Turner was very much a man of his changing era. In his lifetime, he saw Britain ravaged by Napoleonic wars, revived by the Industrial Revolution, and embarked upon a new moment of Imperial glory with the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. His own life embodied astonishing transformation. Born the son of a barber in Covent Garden, he was buried amid pomp and ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral. Turner was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy at the height of the French Revolution when a climate of fear dominated Britain. Unable to travel abroad he explored at home, reimagining the landscape to create some of the most iconic scenes of his country. But his work always had a profound human element. When a moment of peace allowed travel into Europe, Turner was one of the first artists to capture the beauty of the Alps, to revive Venice as a subject, and to follow in Byron’s footsteps through the Rhine country. While he was commercially successful for most of his career, Turner's personal life remained fraught. His mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to Bedlam. Turner never married but had several long-term mistresses and illegitimate daughters. His erotic drawings were numerous but were covered up by prurient Victorians after his death. Turner's late, impressionistic work was held up by his Victorian detractors as example of a creeping madness. Affection for the artist’s work soured. John Ruskin, the greatest of all 19th century art critics, did what he could to rescue Turner’s reputation, but Turner’s very last works confounded even his greatest defender. TURNER humanizes this surprising genius while placing him in his fascinating historical context. Franny Moyle brilliantly tells the story of the man to give us an astonishing portrait of the artist and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

Book The Center of the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Van Essen
  • Publisher : Other Press, LLC
  • Release : 2013-06-04
  • ISBN : 1590515501
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Center of the World written by Thomas Van Essen and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner’s The Center of the World, a mesmerizing and unsettling painting of Helen of Troy that was thought to have been lost forever. This painting has such devastating erotic power that it was kept hidden for almost two centuries, and was even said to have been destroyed...until Henry stumbles upon it in a secret compartment at his summer home in the Adirondacks. Though he knows it is an object of immense value, the thought of parting with it is unbearable: Henry is transfixed by its revelation of a whole other world, one of transcendent light, joy, and possibility. Back in the nineteenth century, Turner struggles to create The Center of the World, his greatest painting, but a painting unlike anything he (or anyone else) has ever attempted. We meet his patron, Lord Egremont, an aristocrat in whose palatial home Turner talks freely about his art and his beliefs. We also meet Elizabeth Spencer, Egremont’s mistress and Turner’s muse, the model for his Helen. Meanwhile, in the present, Henry is relentlessly trailed by an unscrupulous art dealer determined to get his hands on the painting at any cost. Filled with sex, beauty, and love (of all kinds), this richly textured novel explores the intersection between art and eroticism.

Book Erotica Book Club for Nice Ladies

Download or read book Erotica Book Club for Nice Ladies written by Connie Spittler and published by River Junction Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily, a librarian with a bookmobile, arrives in the small California town of Nolan to help start a book club. Across the ocean in an Alsatian chateau, an ancient Book of Cures is stolen and surreptitiously travels to a California coast library, then on to Nolan. Suspicion swirls around the three lonely club members. Unaware of the theft, they secretly pursue their curiosity about classical erotica, while sipping a strange tea infused with herbs grown in a gypsy garden. Mysterious events collide. A crime wave and a murder shake up the town, as the women are entangled deeper and deeper into a baffling puzzle of danger and death.

Book Mountain Man Fixated

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivia T Turner
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2022-01-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Mountain Man Fixated written by Olivia T Turner and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm a city girl. I don't do nature. It sucks. Bugs, bears, poison ivy. You name it, I hate it. So, when my niece asks me to accompany her on a camping trip, I'm horrified. But I'm a good aunt, so I say yes. Well, that was a huge mistake. One of many. Forgetting the bug spray. That was a mistake. So was thinking I could control a canoe. Spoiler alert: I can't. When I get irrevocably lost from the group in the mountain wilderness, I think I've made a fatal mistake. Until Cyrus finds me. He's big, strong, and the toughest man these mountains have ever seen. But he goes absolutely weak when he sees me. An obsession takes over and he's not about to let me go. Is there anything in the survival guide for when a burly mountain man becomes obsessed with you? Spoiler alert: Nope. There's not. Mia is about to find out if bearded men do it better. I think we already know the answer to that question, but come along for the ride anyway and watch this obsessive alpha male move mountains for his girl. Insta-love at its finest in a SAFE read with no cheating and a super sweet HEA guaranteed. Double V-cards. Enjoy!

Book The Love Poems of John Donne

Download or read book The Love Poems of John Donne written by Charles Eliot Norton and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eros Visible

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  • Author : James Turner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9780300219951
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Eros Visible written by James Turner and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible presents a compendious, revisionist account of High Renaissance art. Through close visual analysis of artworks and careful reading of related texts, James Grantham Turner demonstrates the surprisingly close connection between explicitly pornographic art and the canonical works of masters such as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Full of new discoveries, this volume explores the passionate response to antiquity and how a new sex-positive philosophy not only encouraged an increased accentuation of sensual and erotic themes in art, but influenced the sexual cultures of both the court and the art studio. With an interdisciplinary approach that draws on a wide array of visual and textual erotica, Turner offers the first broad, synthetic history of the classically inspired and unambiguously lascivious sensibilities behind some of the most sublime artistic achievements of the Renaissance.

Book The Government Vs  Erotica

Download or read book The Government Vs Erotica written by Philip D. Harvey and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this personal memoir, the owner of Adam & Eve--a business selling contraceptives, sex toys, and adult videos--reports on the 1986 invasion of his firm by the U.S. Justice Department. Harvey's first-hand account goes to the heart of our national debate over First Amendment freedom of expression versus government attempts to limit the availability of erotic materials. Illustrations.

Book The Art of the Erotic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phaidon Editors
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 2017-10-02
  • ISBN : 9780714874241
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Art of the Erotic written by Phaidon Editors and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully curated and beautifully packaged erotic art through the ages – 200 works from the world's most important artists. This carefully curated and beautifully packaged book spotlights nearly 200 works from the world's most important artists, including Titian, Paul Cézanne, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Cecily Brown, Anselm Kiefer, George Condo, and Anish Kapoor. With its chronological organization, The Art of the Erotic provides insights into human sexuality throughout the ages.

Book Turner s Sketchbooks

Download or read book Turner s Sketchbooks written by Ian Warrell and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner's sketchbooks' offer perhaps themost appealing introduction to the artist. They give us a privileged look over Turner's shoulder, allowing us to witness the creation and development of ideas that can be traced through to his major paintings. In the absence of detailed written accounts of his extensive travels, the notebooks are also a record of his impressions of the many places he visited across Britain and Europe. This book is the first to survey the full range of Turner's sketchbooks, beginning with his teenage efforts and culminating in the atmospheric colour studies of his last years.

Book Dirty Alpha

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivia T Turner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Dirty Alpha written by Olivia T Turner and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I think my cheeks are going to stay pink forever.Because this grizzly bear shifter keeps making me blush with the filthy things he's saying.Julian is not shy to let me know what he wants.And what he wants is me.He's obscene, vulgar, lewd, crude, and just plain dirty whenever he opens his mouth.I can't believe this man is my fated mate.Oh, well... clean is overrated anyway.I'm starting to like his dirty mouth.And all the heavenly things he can do with it...If you like an alpha with a dirty mouth, you gotta get this one! Julian Bowen is a filthy-talking Over-The-Top grizzly bear shifter who will have you roaring! This is book two in the The Alpha's Obsession series. These books can be read in any order, are SAFE, with no cheating, and a furry HEA guaranteed. Enjoy!

Book By Surprise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alyssa Turner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9781393979449
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book By Surprise written by Alyssa Turner and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex that's twice as good, love that's three times stronger. When Jodi returned to Burlington after a nasty divorce, she never expected to bump into her old friend Paxton or find him married to a great guy. Could the space to sculpt Paxton and Nicholas offered in their too-big, too-expensive vintage Victorian home really be the perfect solution for everyone? Nicholas always knew his husband Paxton was bisexual, but finding his ancient stash of cheerleader DVDs makes him wonder if Paxton's been feeling nostalgic. Their love is stronger than ever but there are things he just can't give Paxton...or can he? How about a very special birthday present--one nearly nameless night with a woman to grant him the fantasies Nicholas isn't equipped to fulfill. But when he meets Paxton's best friend Jodi, Nicholas finds himself facing new feelings of his own. If only he could stop imagining Jodi's body wedged between Paxton and him and figure out what to do..."I just could not put it down. It was a sweet loving story. ... I could relate to them. If someone would have told me that this story happened in real life, I would not have been surprised... most probably jealous but not surprised." ~Mary Whispers (Menage Blogger)

Book Winter s Beast

    Book Details:
  • Author : Twyla Turner
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-06-22
  • ISBN : 9781548179137
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Winter s Beast written by Twyla Turner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have never resented Ivan's good looks. But there are times, once I became of age to date girls and women, that I wish I could look more like him than myself. Women are not often quick to date a monster. I was okay with that. Until now. Until Winter. She changed everything..."Ivan Petrov is a ruthless Russian businessman who is only six degrees off mob boss. He doesn't give a rat's ass about anything other than getting what he wants. And he wants Winter Rose, the prodigy opera singer, and is willing to torment her sexually until she begs for it. He could care less that Yury, his disfigured and most trusted guard has fallen for her.Winter's Beast is one part sugar and sweet, two parts sex and sweat. It is not your typical Romance and although it has an HEA, it's a dark, twisty road to get there.***WARNING***This novel is filled with angsty consensual non-consent. Yeah, you read that right. I'll say it again...consensual non-consent. It might be triggering for some. As for everyone else... Shake off those strict Puritan morals and enjoy... Because Ivan Petrov, The Sexual Sadist certainly has.With Love, Twyla

Book I ll Be Taking This

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivia T Turner
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2022-01-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book I ll Be Taking This written by Olivia T Turner and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring Break is for wild girls. I really don't know why I'm here. This is not my scene. The excessive drinking, the half-naked bodies, the horrible decisions being made. Ugh. I'd rather be studying. So, when my friends throw me on stage for a wet t-shirt contest, I nearly die. Hundreds of people are watching as the MC approaches with the water jugs to show off my jugs. That's when I see him. Jackson. Charging through the crowd like a nuclear bomb about to go off. First, I feel the possessiveness in his eyes. Then, I feel his hands on me, grabbing me, throwing me over his shoulder, stealing me away. Saving me. He's the rich owner of the hotel and he's not having any of this. It's not the wet t-shirt contest that he's against. It's the hundreds of people watching. He still wants me to get wet, but it will be for an audience of one. Just me, him, a tight white shirt, and a big ole jug of water. That's a contest I don't mind entering. One look at Ella and this hot rich alpha will become totally obsessed! Nothing or no one is going to keep him from his girl. Insta-love at its finest in a SAFE read with no cheating and a super sweet HEA guaranteed. Double V-cards. Enjoy!

Book Turner

Download or read book Turner written by James Hamilton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.M.W. Turner was a painter whose treatment of light put him squarely in the pantheon of the world’s preeminent artists, but his character was a tangle of fascinating contradictions. While he could be coarse and rude, manipulative, ill-mannered, and inarticulate, he was also generous, questioning, and humane, and he displayed through his work a hitherto unrecognized optimism about the course of human progress. With two illegitimate daughters and several mistresses whom Turner made a career of not including in his public life, the painter was also known for his entrepreneurial cunning, demanding and receiving the highest prices for his work. Over the course of sixty years, Turner traveled thousands of miles to seek out the landscapes of England and Europe. He was drawn overwhelmingly to coasts, to the electrifying rub of the land with the sea, and he regularly observed their union from the cliff, the beach, the pier, or from a small boat. Fueled by his prodigious talent, Turner revealed to himself and others the personality of the British and European landscapes and the moods of the surrounding seas. He kept no diary, but his many sketchbooks are intensely autobiographical, giving clues to his techniques, his itineraries, his income and expenditures, and his struggle to master the theories of perspective. In Turner, James Hamilton takes advantage of new material discovered since the 1975 bicentennial celebration of the artist’s birth, paying particular attention to the diary of sketches with which Turner narrated his life. Hamilton’s textured portrait is fully complemented by a sixteen-page illustrations insert, including many color reproductions of Turner’s most famous landscape paintings. Seamlessly blending vibrant biography with astute art criticism, Hamilton writes with energy, style, and erudition to address the contradictions of this great artist.

Book Hittin  the Bricks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Noire
  • Publisher : One World
  • Release : 2009-01-27
  • ISBN : 0345508785
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Hittin the Bricks written by Noire and published by One World. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Urban erotica has never been hotter!” –Nikki Turner, author of Black Widow Have you ever been betrayed by those you love? Violated in the worst kind of way? And no matter how hard you tried to fight your way out of a trick bag, no matter how tall you tried to walk, did the cold streets of life lead you right back to your grimy destiny? The bestselling author of G-Spot and Candy Licker, Noire pens the intense tale of Eva Patterson, a tragic daughter of the ghetto who finds peril on the streets of New York. With an abusive mother and a heroin monkey on her back, Eva experiences a series of traumatizing events, forcing her to flee her Brooklyn tenement and seek refuge with her beloved cousin Fiyah in Harlem. But fate is not done wreaking havoc in Eva’s life yet. Poised on the brink of progress, Eva meets King Brody, a vicious Harlem drug lord who runs Bricks, the hottest rap club in town. Unbeknownst to Eva, her cousin Fiyah’s thirst for glory leads him to cut a killer deal with Brody. A trade-off is arranged: Fiyah gets a recording contract–and Brody gets Eva. The problem is, Eva already has a man: Ice Mello Williams, a hot Harlem rapper who has a bitter feud going with Fiyah and is determined to seize his recording contract. Torn between the man she loves and a violent kingpin, Eva becomes an unwilling pawn in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Can Fiyah and Mello help her elude the sadistic jaws of Brody, or will she end up losing her life in his brutal trap?